André Kuipers with his crewmates Don Pettit (left) and Oleg Kononeko (middle) during a training session at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, in Russia, in August 2011. Kuipers, Dutch national and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS Expeditions 30 and 31) for a long-duration mission in 2011.